Haines v. Union Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the. court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages sustained by John Dugger, a section hand, while in the service of the director-general, near Beloit, on the Union Pacific railway.

The accident happened thus: Ten section hands and their foreman were riding on a railway hand car.' Four of them were in front facing backward and working the front handlebar, four were on the rear end of the car facing forward and working the rear handlebar, two of 'the workmen were at the sides between the handlebars. The foreman sat on the water keg on a projection from the…